“Quelle douce mort, si alors elle fût venue ! Si j’avais peu goûté les biens de la vie, j’en avais peu senti les malheurs. Mon âme paisible pouvait partir sans le sentiment cruel de l’injustice des hommes, qui empoisonne la vie et la mort.” [*]
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How sweet death would be had it come then! Though I’d tasted few of life’s goods, I’d felt also few of its misfortunes; and my peaceful soul would have left without understanding how unjust man can be, which poisons both life and death.
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